... Oswald in Mexico: new leads Steve Dorril The conspiracy trail is littered with unresolved leads, but few can be more important than Lee Harvey Oswald's visit to Mexico shortly before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. What was the purpose of Oswald's visit to Mexico City? Was it Oswald or an impostor who visited the Cuban and Soviet embassies? And what was the role of the local CIA station in all this? Such questions remain unanswered partly because the House Select Committee on Assassinations refused to release its 300 page report, 'Lee Harvey Oswald and Mexico City (1 ), which would have resolved some of the queries. We are left to pick the available material clean ...

... ballistical evidence strongly contests the official version of that tragic event in St James's Sq.(1) Why would the Libyans do it? There is no need here to rehearse the details of that sensational episode. Fairly quickly after this appalling crime, expressions of disquiet with official explanations were voiced. If guns had been taken into the Libyan embassy, surely the intelligence agencies would have known? If there had been a Libyan embassy plan to fire at the anti-Gaddafi demonstrators on that fateful day on 17 April 1984, wouldn't this have been discovered by the authorities? After all, surveillance operations on the embassies of unfriendly states were common practice long before the early 1980s. A combination ...

... March 1988 of terrorist suspect Mohamed Mouhajer, arrested in connection with the bloody spate of attacks in France following the imprisonment of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, leader of the Fraction Armee Revolutionnaire Libanaise (FARL), in 1984. Mouhajer's release was ordered by Judge Gilles Boulouque, the judge who broke the Franco-Iranian diplomatic deadlock of 1987 by permitting the Iranian Embassy official (and probable SAVAMA officer) Vahid Gordji to emerge from his Embassy refuge and leave France in November. (Guardian 26 March 1988) Within a month Marchiani reported success from Beirut. These moves by the Pasqua cell and Chirac's 'Colonel North' have frozen out the official clandestine agency, the Direction Generale de la Securite Exterieure ( ...

... the Fair Play for Cuba Committee by linking Oswald to the American Communist Party. The second, which may have been part of the assassination plot, involved a simulated meeting between an Oswald impostor and Vladimir Kostikov, an alleged KGB assassination expert.(6) It appears that the DFS, through its role in wire-tapping the Soviet and Cuban embassies for the CIA, played an important role in both operations, but especially the second. One of the suppressed facts is that the DFS, in its first versions of the testimony gathered from Durán and her friends about Oswald, used the name 'Harvey Lee Oswald.' Those familiar with the Oswald documentation will be aware that this anomalous ...

... CALLS OF STRANGELY COINCIDENTAL NATURE PERSONS RECEIVED IN THIS COUNTRY OVER PAST YEAR, PARTICULARLY IN CONNECTION WITH DR WARD CASE. [MI5?] REPORTED THAT AT 1805GMT 22 NOV AN ANONYMOUS CALL WAS MADE IN CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND TO THE SENIOR REPORTER OF THE CAMBRIDGE NEWS RPT CAMBRIDGE NEWS. THE CALLER SAID ONLY THAT THE REPORTER SHOULD CALL THE AMERICAN EMBASSY IN LONDON FOR SOME BIG NEWS AND THEN RANG OFF. LAST NIGHT AFTER WORD OF THE PRESIDENT'S DEATH WAS RECEIVED THE REPORTER INFORMED THE CAMBRIDGE POLICE OF THE ABOVE CALL AND THE POLICE INFORMED [Special Branch or MI5]. IMPORTANT THING IS THAT CALL WAS MADE ACCORDING TO [British] CALCULATIONS ABOUT TWENTY FIVE MINUTES BEFORE PRESIDENT WAS SHOT ...

... Tehran concurred, noting that 'if only the Shah can be induced to take a strong line there is a good chance that Musaddiq may be got rid of'. 'Any new government that is worth its salt' would then 'have to take drastic action against individual extremists'.(34) A fortnight later, in September 1951, the embassy was noting its preference 'for a change of government to be engineered'.(35) An adviser at the British embassy, Colonel Wheeler, explained on 29 September that 'combined Anglo-American action could, of course, have removed [Musaddiq] at any time during the past six months... Given a united Anglo-American front, a ...

... Labour movement at the end of the war, including Sam Watson and Hugh Gaitskell, exerted an enduring influence on British foreign policy.'(38) Philip Kaiser commented that Berger 'had extraordinary access to many members of the [Attlee] cabinet, including the prime minister. It was universally recognised that he was the key member of our embassy.'(39)(emphasis added) There were also 'Labour Information Officers' attached to the Marshall Plan staff in the US Embassy in London. One such, William Gausman, 'in May 1950 began discussions with a section of the leadership of the Clerical and Allied Workers Union on how to eliminate communists from the union.. ...

... of simpler times, the TUC could be relied upon to guide young trade unions in the empire into becoming 'trades unions which the employers in the colony would feel they could respect and trust and which could be relied upon loyally to keep an agreement.’ 18 In 1948, a member of the U.S. State Department, Third Secretary at the London Embassy, Herbert E. Weiner, reported from London on 'Attitude of Trades Union Congress Towards World Federation of Trade Unions and American International Trade Union Leaders', and wrote: 'When asked how the Trades Union Congress hoped to prevent the Communists from using the technique of bona fide forms of trade union action in order to infiltrate unions in Germany ...

... note. The Clough book, by contrast, is excellent. It provides a detailed demythologising of this particular spy case and relies on a review of all the literature in the case as well as primary research conducted by the author amongst recently released PRO files. Tyler Kent was a junior clerk – one of 200 employees – at the US Embassy in London in 1939-1940. He worked in the room coding and decoding telegrams and other traffic that passed through and emanated from the London Embassy. When Kent arrived in mid-1939 from the US Embassy in Moscow, the London Ambassador was Joseph Kennedy, the patriarch of the great clan. Kennedy was the commanding figure within the substantial body of ...

... nearly 200 Soviet-controlled spies known to be operating in this country. Many enjoy a tenuous 'cover' as trade delegates, journalists, marine specialists, tourist office spokesmen, or even bank officials. But the hard corps, who are known to Sir Michael Hanley, the Director-General of MI5, as the 'Red Army' are based at the London Embassies of the Soviet Union and her satellites. The KGB's British headquarters is at the Soviet Embassy in Kensington Palace Gardens. The consular section nearby is staffed exclusively by KGB men, and others are to be found at the Soviet trade delegation offices in Highgate. British officials take a particular interest in a number of names, such as counsellor ...